Refuting the claim that the Salaf had a difference of opinion regarding declaring the one who leaves off all actions with the limbs to be disbeliever

Question:

“A questioner from Egypt asks: “What is your refutation on the one who claims that the Salaf differed and had two opinions regarding declaring to be a disbeliever the one who leaves off all actions with the limbs?”

Answer:

“The research regarding this matter is known amongst Ahlus-Sunnah, and that is that the one who leaves off all actions in totality and does not perform any actions of the limbs; then he has no part in al-Islam.

Because Imaan and the true nature of Imaan is where four conditions come together:

The uttering with the tongue, the acknowledging with the heart, the acting with the limbs and to hold that it increases and decreases.

Most importantly is, that the one who believes that the one who leaves off all actions in totality - he does not perform any mandatory and obligatory actions of Islam and does not avoid any prohibited matters - that the one who believes that this one belongs to the people of Tawheed and the people of Paradise when he dies upon that... then he is wrong.

And what is correct, is that the one who leaves off all actions in totality and minutely; is that he has no part in al-Islam. And no-one should refrain from declaring him a disbeliever - the kufr which takes one outside the fold of Islam.

Because with what then is he going to meet Allah? And enter Paradise? Because even if he has uttered La Ilaha Illa Allah; he did not act according to its meaning and to what it obligates and necessitates.

And as for the rest of the actions; meaning that he performs certain actions and falls short in other actions, in something which does not eject him from the fold Islam, then this belongs to the nature of the human being.

With regards to the people of sins; the speech of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah regarding them, is that they fall under the Will of Allah. Allah (عز وجل) forgives the sins of whom He Wills, and will enter him into Paradise without the Fire touching him. He is the Owner of the greatest Favours. And the one whom He punishes, verily He punishes him according to (the severity) of his crime.

And eventually he will end up in Paradise, because he belongs to the people of Tawheed, and to the people of the prayer and the fast, and he belongs in general to the people who follow the pillars of Islam and Imaan and Ihsaan. And this matter is precisely researched in the books of ‘aqeedah.”

Shaykh Zayd bin Muhammad bin Haadee al-Madkhalee, may Allah have mercy upon him

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